Quantum3D Raven - 16MB 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee GPU

I owned one of these for quite a while, in a multi-boot system I kept around in college for DOS and early Win9x games, and writing papers in BeOS 5. The 2D was *really* fast; the 3D was effectively like a doubled up Voodoo Graphics with a unified framebuffer, a better triangle setup engine, and better image quality. That means it didn't have multitexturing, but driver optimizations and a pretty efficient overall design would put it ahead of competition from the ATi Rage Pro, Matrox G200, and others. The chip got a die shrink and another texturing unit and renamed the Voodoo3, which did quite a bit better. :) Still, for 640x480 Quake III Arena and UT99 it was A-OK!
 
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